Heavenly Creations by Holly McMillen

I’ve been MIA for a few days. It’s hard to explain why, but it’s all good. Life goes on, right? I am a bit worried that this current trend is a precursor to the way my summer is going to be.

I have been stamping. I just haven’t had the opportunity to get things posted here on my blog. This month’s Dirty Dozen/Alumni challenge was suppose to be posted on Thursday. I didn’t get to that. I have a slew of birthdays coming up and have been stamping away for those. So, today, what I did was combine the Dirty Dozen/Alumni challenge with the Inspiration challenge on SCS and made it a birthday card. There…killed three birds with one stone :).

Our mission for the DD/DDA challenge was to use buttons, but NO black of any kind. No black ink, no black cardstock, no black anything. I thought it would be hard, but it was actually pretty easy. Then the Inspiration challenge came from the site called Amy Atlas Events. I chose THIS item as my inspiration

So, here’s what I did. First I punched out the scalloped oval. Then I used a medium oval punch to take off the scallops on one side. I created the cupcake bottom by just eyeballing a piece of cardstock for the shape. On the oval (cupcake top), I stamped one of the smaller flourishes from There She Goes’ Flourish mini set (in Tim Holtz’ tea bag distressing ink). I used the longest ‘shelf’ from the TSG HSH Halloween Additions set to make the lines on the cupcake bottom (also in Tim Holtz tea bag distressing ink.

Then I used the largest flourish from the Flourish mini set on the bashful blue frame. I added some tiny white dots randomly around the flourishes. The sentiment was stamped in Tim Holtz antique photo. I finished it off with some pearls and a ribbon treatment.

5 Responses to “~ A Dirty Inspired Birthday Challenge ~”

Fun ribbon treatment and a great card using so many challenges 😀 This time of year is crazy busy for me so my stamping time is at a minimum and then with summer coming, it will continue to be that way too as the kids are home 24/7. However, I wouldn’t trade my time with them for anything.